Pinnacle hires exec to lead retirement services push

Pinnacle Financial Partners has recruited a veteran North Carolina bank executive to oversee the growth of its retirement plan services from a part of the former BNC Bancorp operation to Pinnacle’s four-state footprint.

John Ehmig has come aboard at Pinnacle as a manager of retirement services and will work from North Carolina’s Triad area. Ehmig (pictured) has 22 years of experience in the retirement sector and had been a vice president at BB&T in Greensboro for nearly two years. Before that, he worked for more than a decade in various roles at First Citizens Bank in Raleigh.